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901.
by ugh 15y ago
Tone matters. You shouldn't lie but you also shouldn't be tone-deaf.
902.
by ugh 15y ago
So, is that only happening online or also in the real world? Also, is it worldwide? I just happened to be at a (German) electronics retailer and they still sell the pads for their old prices and the people there know nothing about a reducti
903.
by ugh 15y ago
Well, it’s a bit too early, isn’t it? Here’s a time-lapse from a year ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV-AFnCkRLY
904.
by ugh 15y ago
He could have been more polite but one can always be more polite.
905.
by ugh 15y ago
Those data protection appointees (and the people who are working for them) are the enforcement arm of the data protection laws. The laws are not (only) enforced by the police but by specialized offices – just like tax law (with the tax offi
906.
by ugh 15y ago
With only a few exceptions, privacy and data protection is handled on the state (or Länder) level in Germany. (One exception to this is the federal government and its data protection.) He would have to convince his fifteen colleagues to mak
907.
by ugh 15y ago
I’m pretty sure it’s deliberate. I have heard more than one Apple engineer say in their WWDC talks that you should always make sure to indicate when there’s more content and the way you do that is to cut off the last entry in a list.
908.
by ugh 15y ago
But what’s the value of not having a remainder? I don’t quite understand. I can understand the value of not ending up with a remainder in print but on screens?
909.
by ugh 15y ago
I’m not suggesting to slavishly copy InDesign and I’m not saying it’s easy. InDesign would be absolutely horrible for web design. I’m merely suggesting that WYSIWYG for HTML and CSS is not impossible. Being able to flexibly test (e.g. diffe
910.
by ugh 15y ago
There are plenty of semantics in InDesign documents. InDesign is all about character, paragraph, list and table styles – it’s what you use to make InDesign work. You wouldn’t have to add much to make those styles do all the semantic work. Y
911.
by ugh 15y ago
Why? WYSIWYG works perfectly well in InDesign (which is absolutely awesome, by the way), why can it never work with HTML? I don’t really understand. Current and past implementations are or have been bad, sure, but why can’t it work in pri
912.
by ugh 15y ago
I guess the grandparent was suggesting that, yes, it’s unfair but Apple has no incentive for banning reviews. They are ok with users heckling developers for updates since developers aren’t exactly scarce.
913.
by ugh 15y ago
Another reason why far reaching demands for censorship from government officials are a very bad idea: You lose all the little leverage you had over countries like China when you demand less censorship from them. They will just point at the
914.
by ugh 15y ago
More … how? What matters is the engine, who cares about the chassis? It would be truly idiotic to include Chrome but to exclude Safari. That just does not make sense. Sure, more of Chrome’s chassis is open source (though not really), but wh
915.
by ugh 15y ago
Chrome isn’t open source. Full stop. If you don’t count Safari you also can’t count Chrome. I think it’s equally stupid to not count Chrome and Safari.
916.
by ugh 15y ago
0.7, 0.9, 1.6. Those are commonly understood to be versions. If anything Minecraft is a port of creative mode Minecraft (which is completely free). But not even a straightforward port.
917.
by ugh 15y ago
If you use that criterium, you also can’t lump Chrome into that. I would count the engine, not the browser.
918.
by ugh 15y ago
Really? This kooky theory finds it way to HN from Reddit. Wow. Who would have thought? I’m very disappointed. The language he uses in a blog post is not relevant. What’s relevant is whether a court would think that “future versions” from th
919.
by ugh 15y ago
Just think about all the trouble: Mojang doesn’t use one payment processor, they use two and they would have to find some way to let customers prove to one payment processor that they used the other one. That’s not all that problematic on t
920.
by ugh 15y ago
Well, then expect to be disappointed. People will want to be paid for their work.
921.
by ugh 15y ago
Not just Vienna but many places have great tap water, much better than what you get in a lot of bottles. There are obviously also places where the tap water is of a worse quality or just tastes awful. (The problem for many Europeans is that
922.
by ugh 15y ago
They make that because the evidence is given under oath and it’s supposed to be a quick (and preliminary) decision. It’s also not the final decision. The evidence will be examined again at a later point in time and Apple is liable for all d
923.
by ugh 15y ago
And competition also means that the Russians can’t mark up their flights quite as much. Currently they are the only ones doing it, Nasa depends on them. That’s obviously not a nice situation to be in.
924.
by ugh 15y ago
Those $150m are for bringing up the same payload to the ISS as Dragon can, right? In 2007 Nasa signed a $719m contract with Roscosmos for 15 seats and 5.6 tons of cargo. 5.6 tons are three Progress flights (2.350kg per mission) and one Drag
925.
by ugh 15y ago
Yeah, those crazy lunatics! Let’s smile smugly and ignore their incoherent rambling!
926.
by ugh 15y ago
Gruber generally never screams bloody murder. You also should never read him expecting an unbiased opinion of Google. That’s not the value proposition and it never was. It’s very weird what you expect of Gruber. It just doesn’t make any sen
927.
by ugh 15y ago
Do you seriously think analysis by Asymco, Gruber and Marco regarding Apple are the flawless gospel truth? Why would I have to believe that in order to respect their opinions? I’m not going to sink to the level and just attack them withou
928.
by ugh 15y ago
One reason why the courts decide so swiftly in Germany (in cases like this) is that the evidence that was presented by Apple was presented under oath. As you can imagine, lying under oath is no joke. The evidence provided can be taken at fa
929.
by ugh 15y ago
That’s certainly also possible. I was just thinking there was more involvement because I have a really hard time imagining that some PR person at Google was writing one statement after another and didn’t notice how odd they would sound if y
930.
by ugh 15y ago
Just because people don’t share your opinion doesn’t mean that they are purposefully lying. It’s a quite common fallacy, really.

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